Hardeep Puri hits out at SAD leader for his double standards on CAA, underlines significance of CAA

New Delhi, August 25: After Shiromani Akali Dal leader Manjinder S Sirsa took 'U turn' and demanded the government to amend the Citizenship Amendment Act after first opposing it, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri hit out at Sirsa. He said the voice who supported Ani-CAA is now demanding CAA.

 

Without naming Sirsa, Puri indirectly slammed Sirsa saying that those who were opposing the enactment of the CAA are today demanding that its cut-off date should be extended from 2014 to 2021.

 

He also said that the development in Afghanistan is the reason why the enactment of the citizenship Amendment Act is necessary. He said, “Recent developments in our volatile neighborhood & the way Sikhs & Hindus are going through a harrowing time are precisely why it was necessary to enact the Citizenship Amendment Act.”

 

 

 

It should be noted that the hypocrisy touched the skies, yesterday, after the Shiromani Akali Dal leader Manjinder S Sirsa who earlier supported the anti-CAA resolution, took 'U Turn' and requested the government to amend the CAA act in the country. He also requested the government to extend the date from 2014 to 2021.

 

 

 

 

He also wrote a letter to the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, urging him to do the same. He said, “I request the PM and the HM to amend the CAA and extend the cut-off date from 2014 to 2021 so that people coming from Afghanistan get benefitted and lead a safe life here and their children can study here.”

 

 

"Requesting @AmitShah ji and Government of India for necessary amendments in CAA to cover Sikhs and Hindus of Afghanistan who have taken refuge in 2020 and 2021," the SAD leader tweeted along with his letter to Shah. Sirsa's request comes after a number of Afghan Sikhs and Hindus were brought to India from Afghanistan.

 

It should be noted, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) earlier supported an anti-CAA resolution moved by the Amarinder Singh-led Congress government in the Punjab Assembly. Shiromani Akali Dal also backed off from contesting the elections during the Delhi Assembly polls after it its ally BJP asked them to change its stand on the Citizenship Amendment Act.

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